Jozsa Kristof said: > OK, I really feel like talking to myself, but still.. Have fun! > > facts: > - oracle 9i wont work with glibc 2.3.1 (it worked with glibc 2.3) - one > oracle employee confirmed that on the forums in an answer to someone - > portage has no more glibc 2.3 ebuilds, just 2.3.1
I was unaware of any major changes from 2.3 to 2.3.1; all that was changed were bug fixes to allow applications to run with small stack sizes. 2.3 can be put back. > - downgrading glibc to 2.2.x brakes everything as binaries on the > system are linked against the not-so-backward-compatible glibc 2.3 yep > > questions: > - how do i do a proper downgrade to glibc 2.2? Well you would have to recompile everything, this is a bootstrap situation. > - or where do i get a glibc 2.3 ebuild from to get back our oracle > working? - why gentoo maintainers force people and leave no choice, as > removing essential packages like glibc 2.3 from the portage tree? Make one yourself, copy the ebuild to glibc-2.3.ebuild, and quickly scan the file for any 2.3.1 -> 2.3 changes needing to be done. There have been no changes between 2.3.1 and 2.3 of any note in the ebuild. Some / All patches may need to be removed though. > - why the latest install snapshots contain only glibc 2.3.1 again, > therefore making gentoo a non-oracle aware distribution? Well it is the same with redhat 8.0/8.1. To use Oracle you need an old ish linux distro like gentoo-1.2 or redhat advanced server. That is the pain of using propiertry apps. > - if they do so, will really this pile-o-shit make itself the stable > 1.4 released within days, and gentoo people are disabled to run oracle > 9i anymore? Well if you want to do things by the book, only use software sanctioned by Oracle (ie. old redhat distros) . It is not gentoo's or GNU/Linux's fault the Oracle ppl cannot keep up and release POSIX / glibc complient binaries or recompile for newer glibc's. (if this is false then post a glibc bug for not being POSIX ) > - does anyone care about Oracle 9i-compatibility or read my posts at > all? > Gentoo is 90% desktop, so I am not supprised. Even I only use Redhat / Debian for servers. If you pay enough $$'s to use Oracle when why not use an OS with a support contract? > thanks for the answers in advance, > None given :-) > ps. i could compile the glibc 2.2.5 i mentioned in my previous post > (below) after a downgrade of gcc Yep, the ultra new gcc defines a new keyword __thread which causes some sources to fail to compile. Stefan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
